[lbo-talk] Flogging a Dead Horse (was Hitch: Stay Strong)

[H. Curtiss Leung]

For me this pretty much nails it.  Accussing Henry Kissenger of war crimes
or exposing Agnes Bojaxhiu as a whited sepulcher didn't get him half the
attention his turn to the right has.


> 
> Today, crackpot behavior is no longer the hallmark of counterculture,
> let alone progressivism.  In fact, it is pretty main stream (hip hop)
> and right wing (Rush Limbaugh) - so maintainig an intellectual celebrity
> status throuigh these means is rather difficult, if at all possible.
> Therefore, a cleberity status craving megalomaniac must resort to
> different yet essentially similar artifice to maintain his celebrity
> status - again by flashing a finger, but this time at his
> countercultural audience, by becoming ultra-orthodox.  This way they
> again stand out of the mainstream obscenity hurling crowd. 
> 
> Hitch and Horowitz are perhaps the most prominent but not the only
> cases.
>